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Expedition seeks to better understand underwater sea life in Inuit region of Atlantic Canada

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 10:57 — Last Updated: Friday, August 30, 2019 at 12:43
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A 10-day research project between an ocean conservation group and the government of the Inuit region of Atlantic Canada wound

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HMS Terror’s ‘incredible’ condition may offer new clues to Franklin Expedition mystery

Janet Davison, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 10:11 — Last Updated: Friday, August 30, 2019 at 12:43
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The first systematic exploration of the interior of HMS Terror is offering Parks Canada underwater archeologists the tantalizing prospect that

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Archeologists dive back into Franklin mystery in Arctic Canada

Laura Busch, CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 16, 2019 at 16:34 — Last Updated: Monday, August 19, 2019 at 10:46
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A Parks Canada research team is en route to the underwater wrecks of Sir John Franklin’s ships in an effort

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Countries CULTURE Culture Featured Featured • Zone 3 General Sweden 

Sweden, Norway team up to preserve ancient rock carvings

Frida Grönholm, Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 11:48 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 13:51
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Sweden and Norway are working together to better preserve thousand-year-old rock carvings, like the ones found on runestones. Freezing water

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Countries CULTURE Culture Finland General 

Finnish Heritage Agency scouring countryside for ancient monuments

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 14:44
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The Finnish Heritage Agency (FHA) is conducting a nationwide field inspection of ancient monuments protected by the government. The Nationally

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Canada Countries ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured General Highlights 

Parks Canada battles Arctic ice to explore crumbling Franklin expedition wreck

Dean Beeby, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 15:35 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 15:39
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Parks Canada may be in a race against time to research the HMS Erebus as rough Arctic weather conditions badly

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Canada Countries Cyber Cyber-4 Featured General Highlights Science SCIENCE 

Indigenous oral history gives archeologists insight into early human life

Mike Rudyk, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 11:41 — Last Updated: Friday, March 15, 2019 at 12:31
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University of Alaska archeologists are employing Indigenous oral history to gain more insight into what human life was like thousands

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Countries Featured General Highlights Iceland SCIENCE Society 

Horses buried with Icelandic Viking nobles were male, ancient DNA shows

CBC News
Posted: Monday, January 7, 2019 at 14:56
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Archaeologists in Iceland say they have analyzed DNA evidence to show that male horses were killed and then buried alongside

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Interview – Hair samples from Franklin expedition member show high lead levels

Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 16:49
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When Sir John Franklin left Britain with two ships and 129 sailors in 1845, it was to be an epic

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‘Amazing’ archeological find in northwest Canada’s melting ice patches: an intact atlatl dart

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 16:10 — Last Updated: Friday, September 7, 2018 at 13:29
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At first, Jennifer Herkes didn’t realize what had been found — she thought it was a piece of an atlatl

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Rare 1,500-year-old arrowhead found in northwestern Canada

Mike Rudyk, CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 31, 2018 at 15:13
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Jennifer Macgillivray had been trying to do a back country hike in Yukon’s Tombstone region for a number of years.

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Canada Featured General Science SCIENCE 

Canadian researchers count on Siberian reindeer herders to solve archaeological mystery

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 18:41 — Last Updated: Friday, May 5, 2017 at 14:09
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Two Canadian archaeologists are on their way to a remote part of the Russian Arctic hoping that the traditional knowledge

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Environment Featured General SCIENCE USA 

Could a giant polar bear skull from Alaska belong to the legendary ‘weasel bear’?

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 18:49
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Aboriginal hunters from Arctic Canada have a couple of names for what they say is an extremely rare polar bear that

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Map of the Barents Strait between Alaska and Russia's Chukotka region. How will tensions between Moscow and Washington affect researchers in the Arctic? (iStock)
Countries Featured General Society SOCIETY USA 

How did climate affect ancient wildlife in Arctic Alaska?

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 15:15 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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For about 1,000 years at the end of the last ice age, the woolly mammoths, steppe bison, ancient horses and

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Featured Finland Society Society USA 

Four divers charged with raiding ancient shipwreck in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 17:30 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 19:12
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A southern Finland district prosecutor has pressed charges against four men for allegedly stealing from a shipwreck protected by antiquities

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